Quotes About Beauty Edgar Allan Poe

#1. The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions ... Ligeia

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

Jamie Zawinski

#3. I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. Being a lad is what I'm about.

Liam Gallagher

#5. It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

Stanley Hoffmann

#6. Got an issue, get a tissue.

Jeff Rich

#7. In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

Edgar Allan Poe

#8. Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

Brandi Carlile

#9. Edgar Allan Poe's writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

Nicholas Trandahl

#10. Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. Would they have a life together anymore, after tonight? Or was this it? The end?

Chris Pavone

#12. It is in Music, perhaps, that the soul most nearly attains the great end for which, when inspired by the Poetic Sentiment, it struggles - the creation of supernal Beauty.

Edgar Allan Poe

#13. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allan Poe

#14. If today shows no results, that doesn't mean the past wasn't working or the present isn't working. It just means we see only part of the picture. Faith believes God is working in every part of the process.

Deb Brammer

#15. Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not; Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise. And love a simple duty.

Edgar Allan Poe

#16. When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.

Edgar Allan Poe

#17. The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

Edgar Allan Poe

#18. Helen, thy beauty is to me

Edgar Allan Poe

#19. No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

Edgar Allan Poe

#20. That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Edgar Allan Poe

#21. Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

#22. There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.

Edgar Allan Poe

#23. There is no exquisite beauty ... without some strangeness in the proportion.

Edgar Allan Poe

#24. Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It's great to see more of the kids.

Gordon Brown

#25. How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.

Edgar Allan Poe

#26. there is no beauty without some strangeness.

Edgar Allan Poe